Data Processing with MATLAB: Formation Energies of Titanium Oxides
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an extremely common chemical substance and finds uses ranging from serving as a pigment for white paint, sunscreen and even toothpaste, to serving as a photosensitizer in waste water ...

Solving the 1D Schrodinger Equation
Morgan Hawker, California State University-Fresno
In this activity, students will explore 1-dimensional solutions to the time-independent Schrodinger equation. Students will utilize a provided MATLAB live script to determine exact energy values for two different ...

Scaling sizes of sports field
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
This is a MATLAB live script that guides students to learn about the kinematics of thrown balls in various sports. It helps the students learn about simple numerical methods to solve differential equations, as well ...

A Daily Dose of MATLAB for College Freshmen
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University
Teaching first-year college students, with my colleague Adam Maloof, as part of a research-oriented "Freshman Seminar" involves teaching students MATLAB -- from scratch to proficiency. Rather than sharing ...

Virtual Electric Machines Lab using Simulink / Simscape
Douglas Jussaume, University of Tulsa
The Electric Power Systems course discusses three-phase systems, transformers, DC motors, and AC Synchronous motors and generators. The associated lab provides the students with hands-on experience in measuring ...

Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots
Tess Weathers, Chabot College, Engineering
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

Vector Fields
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
This activity is exploratory and collaborative MATLAB activity. Students will explore and visualize vector fields. Students will also learn about the flow lines of the vector fields.

Area Moment of Inertia Calculator
Louis Woodhams, Washington University in St. Louis
Students must use Matlab to draw a region of interest on an image and calculate properties of the shape such as area, area moment of inertia, and principal axes.

Adaptive learning with MATLAB tools for Electric Circuit
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
This year, the goal of this project is to create MATLAB Live Script files, Online Grader, and Simulink for advanced level Electrical Circuits courses. The course in Electrical and Computer Engineering for ...

SIR Model - Finding Relationship between Contact Rate and Peak Infection Rate
Michael Thorburn, California State University-Los Angeles
In this set of exercises, a script is developed that solves the coupled system of ordinary differential equations making up an SIR model of virus spread. The peak value computed for the infected population is found ...